Month: August 2025

Trump has achieved the seemingly impossible.

He has reversed the trajectory of the divergent paths of China and India, and has got the ‘Dragon and Elephant to dance together’!

And to think that a few short years before, we were clutching at each others’ throats in Galwan. And now we are breaking bread together.

Nobel Peace Prize for Trump!

I had mentioned by incredulity on the chimera of US helping out Zelensky for moving towards peace for Ukraine.

Today’s headlines on the NYTimes confirms this, while at the same time trying to continue the same lame propaganda job for the Trump administration.

The first headline frankly admits that there is no progress on peace.

The second headline writer, handed a separate agenda from the first, proclaims a victory of Trumpian peace-making skills:

All credit to Trump’s truce negotiations for the return of 6,000 bodies (then confirmed as ‘dead’) of Ukrainians to Ukraine.

Wow! What a victory! Nobel Peace Prize for Trump!

This is beyond farcical.

I got the above news.

For context, there was a highly despicable attack on the lady CM of Delhi Ms Rekha Gupta.

The police commissioner is being held responsible and faces ignominy.

Does he deserve the brickbats?

The physical attack in the nature of a slap and more, happened during Jan Sunwai – a session of interaction with the common public. The attacker had come from Gujarat all the way for this. It is apparent that any member of the public could attend.

Was the public who came to meet her, to be kept at a particular distance in police presence? If so, then police apathy can be said to be in the above case.

But I believe that was not in the the matter above.

Anybody could attend the Jan Sunwai and the CM was conducting herself so as to be seen as freely accessible to the public at large.

There are lots of such instances. E.g. when a politician is in a public program and goes around shaking hands. Is he open to any random attack? Of course he is. Can he blame the police commissioner for this? I believe he cannot. For he has himself consciously chosen to mingle so with the public, considering the pros and cons.

A politician with high risk to himself, like Narendra Modi, will not be accessible. Those who do not perceive such a risk, will keep the police at bay and the common public close.

Such a stray incident, neither warrants blame on the police head, nor does it warrant any drastic change in style of further such events. Just some more distance between the CM and the people with a body guard at hand.

But that is Madam CM’s call. Do not make a scapegoat of the police commissioner.

In your quest for venting anger or worse still, for some performative action.

NYTimes is implying continuous sabotage operations by Russia.

Which have been the main documented sabotage attacks?

 • The Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines transporting Russian gas to Europe were damaged by underwater explosions in September 2022, rendering most of the pipelines inoperable.

 • Since late 2022 and especially through 2024-2025, there have been multiple suspected sabotage attacks on undersea cables (telecommunications, power) and pipelines connecting Nordic countries, the Baltic states, Germany, and Russia.

 • The damaged infrastructure includes gas pipelines (Nord Stream, TurkStream) and telecommunications cables linking Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Latvia, and Germany.

Who lost because of the sabotage?

 • Europe suffered significant disruption in natural gas supplies from Russia, leading to energy shortages and higher prices.

 • The pipelines are majority-owned by Russian state gas company Gazprom; Russia lost the ability to transport gas to Europe through these routes.

 • European countries relying on these pipelines and cables for energy and communication faced challenges and increased vulnerability.

 • The sabotage heightened tensions and underscored Europe’s dependence on Russian energy prior to the war and subsequent sanctions.

Thus the primary financial loss was on Russia, as it was exporting the gas from those pipelines. Europe was forced to make up its gas requirement from other sources.

Who would be the prima facie perpetrator of these sabotage attacks? Who had the profit motive?

Certainly not Russia.

Yet, the international press since that day has placed the allegation squarely on Russia. Even as German authorities later issued a warrant for a Ukrainian native. Russia itself blames this on NATO and Ukraine. But who cares? The media first decides its agenda, and then goes about its business.

Hey! Who are you kidding?

Zelensky made no progress with Trump. Not a bit.

Except for learning to lavish praise while still getting skinned.

The other minor headlines proclaim – US won’t send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine.

Also, Europe’s leaders emerge without a clear plan. Even while assembled like schoolboys around Trump in his Oval office.

I can add a few more headlines :

Trump rules out Ukraine joining NATO.

Trump rules out Russia-Ukraine ceasefire as a prerequisite for peace talks, and is ok with Russia pummeling Ukraine and moving the Line of Control daily.

Trump refuses to provide any financial or military assistance to Ukraine. But graciously allows Europeans to buy weapons from him provided they are ready to foot the bill. MBS of Saudi Arabia was gifted the country in return for buying weapons from US.

Trump keeps open the options of looting Ukraine’s wealth as payback for the help offered by Biden.

Lame security guarantees offered with little clarity.

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We see the amount of deceipt cooked up by US media outlets, it is stagerring.

It is a shameless attempt to show US and its shenanigans in a good light, while proclaiming themselves as top of the heap on Press Freedom Index (whatever that means), and disparaging media of other countries.

Meanwhile, Zelensky has destroyed a generation.